Primary Purposes of Collecting Personal Information


Clients

Like all Speech-Language Pathologists, we collect, use and disclose personal information such that we may provide effective communication, cognitive-communication and swallowing intervention. For example, we collect information about a client's health history, developmental history, and communication/cognitive-communication/swallowing abilities to assist us in assessing that individual's communication or swallowing functioning and to make recommendations regarding intervention needs.

Other examples of the type of personal information we collect for this primary purpose include:
•name •date of birth • previous health assessment •results/reports.
A second primary purpose is to obtain a baseline of communication/cognitive-communication/swallowing information in order to measure response to intervention, changes over time, and to assist in plans for discharge. The information collected would be shared with the pertinent care provider(s).
Under rare circumstances, the information may be used or disclosed without the client's conveyed consent in the case of an emergency (e.g. the client is not able to communicate)